Dan Patterson Cave Training in High Springs, Alachua County, United States | Scuba diving | Cave Diving | Cavern Diving

Dan Patterson Cave Training based in High Springs, Florida offers cave diver training from cavern diver to full cave diver and goes over four distinct levels. The first level is Cavern Diver which covers basic Cave Diving skills, such as equipment configuration, guideline and reel use, specialized buoyancy control, body position and propulsion techniques. The basic cave diver or intro to Cave Diving course allows students to make dives beyond the cavern zone into the actual cave but avoiding decompression, and the Apprentice Cave Diver course expands on the basic course with an introduction to decompression diving. The Full Cave Diver is the final step in the Cave Diving process covering refinement techniques of previous training, more decompression theory, complex navigation, jumps/gaps when practicing circuits, and traverses.